Build ... Defend ... Maintain

832nd Engineer Aviation Battalion (EAB)

Landing in England in Sept. 1942, five months after being activated, this
Battalion started construction on Glatton Airdrome and Abbots Ripton Air Depot.
They arrived in France on D + 24, following advancing armies across France into
the heart of the Reich. By V-E Day they had built ten airdromes, 16 S&E strips,
and maintained 9 airdromes built by others.